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Overview:

Students will do research into primary sources - news articles and NGO websites - in order to learn about their country's position on the global issue.

Guiding Questions:

  • What is my country's position on the global issue?

Content Objective:

Students will be able to find key details about their country's position on the global issue.

Language Objective:

Students will be able to write the main idea, supporting details, and describe new insights about the global issue.

SEI Strategy:

Teach students to use text features of heading and pictures to preview an article/NGO website before they begin reading.


Suggested Agenda:

1. Explain/model for students how to us the country news brief assignment as with their articles.
2. Students skim all provided articles, each student choses an article to do a Country News Brief about your country and the global issue using the handout below: